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Can you believe it!!!!!!!!!!!

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GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 24 Jul 2011 15:56

Hi there
A few months ago I sent for a marriage cert for my grand aunt, I went through the Gro and asked them to do a 3 year search for me. I gave them a number of checking points, her birth year ,fathers name and employment and asked them to pay particular attention to her fathers employment as the marriage was out of her birth area fathers employ was a local trade he was a Potter Figure Maker and I didn't think there would be many of them in Nottinghamshire. Well waited the 3 weeks and the cert came however her age was 5 years to young and fathers employment was an Architect. So rang them and they agreed the checking points hadn't been taken notice of,so refunded the money. Any way in the last couple of weeks through a contact on hear I find out it was the right cert, she had knocked 5 years off her age and upgraded her dads job, Can you believe that and she was a CAPTAIN in the Salvation army as well. You do get some surprises with this hobby. lol :-0

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

J* Near M3.Jct4

J* Near M3.Jct4 Report 24 Jul 2011 16:11

What a star - love it and let it be a lesson to us all!

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 24 Jul 2011 16:14

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive

:-D

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 24 Jul 2011 16:15

Everyone gets found out in the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gill :-)

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 24 Jul 2011 16:19

True. And i have found some real snorkers as I expect others have too ;-)

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Teresa With Irish Blood in Me Veins

Teresa With Irish Blood in Me Veins Report 24 Jul 2011 16:21

Yep...truth will out.

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 24 Jul 2011 16:22

I bet that "Saintly" lady is looking down on me from somewhere and calling me some choice names. ;-)

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

K

K Report 24 Jul 2011 16:58

It does throw you!!! My grandmother also knocked 5 years off her age both times she married. She was always so gentle and kind - I would have never thought it of her.

Mind her father described his father as a gentleman on his marriage cert when he was actually an ag lab!

Researching:
Anstee/Bucks; Russell/London; Durose; Pease/North Yorks; Kelly/IoM

GillfromStaffs

GillfromStaffs Report 24 Jul 2011 18:46

Lol, don't ya just love um!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
Gill

Researching:
Proctor Audley & S-O-T, Forrester,Hanley, Shenton, Hanley, Moreton, Madeley. All in Staffordshire

KempinaPartyhat

KempinaPartyhat Report 24 Jul 2011 21:38

gosh .............Think how them fisher woman talked!!

BrianW

BrianW Report 25 Jul 2011 21:46

My great grandfather also knocked five years off his age when he married the mistress he had been living with for 25 years.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Kathryn

Kathryn Report 28 Jul 2011 08:24

If it's scandal you want then my GGG grandad got two sisters pregnant six years apart and was then pusued by one of them through the courts for maintenance, all whilst married to his wife (the other woman won). It made the front page of the local rag. Bet his wife was happy... Though they did take the little girl in and she lived with them for at least thirty years!

And another GGGG grandad serially married his teenage servants, the third and last when he was in his sixties! Eww!